Masterful Images: English Poetry from Metaphysicals to by A. E. Dyson, Julian Lovelock (auth.)

By A. E. Dyson, Julian Lovelock (auth.)

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Appear a conscious artist as she strives, like any child, to bring order out of chaos? - 'tames', 'Wilder', 'only', 'tell' are words of struggle and choice. Perhaps she is even aware of the impact of her beauty, her 'fair Aspect', and deliberately uses it as an instrument? (In his 'To a Young Beauty', W. B. ) During the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, many artists believed that Art can move towards, as well as away from, 'reality',* yet unresolved tensions haunt the gardens, the golden worlds and Edens of Art.

40 MARVELL Nature with designs of her own. And inescapably, the 'Roses' yoke together divine and erotic; the flower of love, above all, has its thorns. Yet, if such undercurrents spell present ambiguity and future danger, the child's essential innocence is not in doubt. Her power, though she knows, and uses it, remains untainted; the poet's response witnesses - through its own ironies - to this. Only in the next two stanzas does the poem develop towards its larger pattern, starting with a journey into conjecture, and into time: Who can foretel for what high cause This Darling of the Gods was born !

Tames', 'Wilder', 'only', 'tell' are words of struggle and choice. Perhaps she is even aware of the impact of her beauty, her 'fair Aspect', and deliberately uses it as an instrument? (In his 'To a Young Beauty', W. B. ) During the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, many artists believed that Art can move towards, as well as away from, 'reality',* yet unresolved tensions haunt the gardens, the golden worlds and Edens of Art. When does 'native majesty' turn into pride, cultivation into tyranny?

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